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Parents in MySpace: disaster follows (potentially for the internet? See update below)

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

My daughter told me about this story, and when I said that it must be some sort of fake “news,” she sent me the following link: St. Charles Journal – News – POKIN AROUND: A real person, a real death. Alas, it looks real enough (the “Pokin Around” part is a play on the columnist’s […]

Filed under: health, justice, media, MySpace, scandal. |
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Social class on social networks: and style?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

danah boyd has a new article out called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace, which everybody seems to be reading (and, looking at her blog, commenting on — two hundred comments and counting…) Basic thesis: facebook attracts more upwardly mobile college-bound types, while MySpace attracts non-college-bound, possibly declasse or lower-class or outcast-type kids. […]

Filed under: danah_boyd, facebook, health, ideas, MySpace, social_critique, social_networking, web. |
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